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> Yes, but genes are one of the last equalisers out there. Are they equalisers though? And what makes you think gene editing won't be available to everyone? It
by darawk 8y ago
> Yes, but genes are one of the last equalisers out there.
Are they equalisers though? And what makes you think gene editing won't be available to everyone? It seems like the sort of thing with an exponential cost curve. It will very rapidly become cheap and accessible to all.
In fact, i'd argue it's likely to be more equalizing than inequalizing.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> And what makes you think gene editing won't be available to everyone? It seems like the sort of thing with an exponential cost curve. It will very rapidly become cheap and accessible to all. The rich and already disproportionately powerful will get it and use it first (creating barriers to upward mobility and exacerbating class power divides), then will have every incentive (and even more disproportionate power than previously) to create barriers to access. Similar to the reason that, 70+ years later, there are only a handful of nuclear weapons states.
- darawk 8y agoYou mean like how they did with the iPhone? Where exactly has that ever happened for any nontrivial period of time? Technology gets pushed to the masses. The rich will get richer by selling it to them not keeping it for themselves.